Getting started with ASIC mining

[PriitV]

I am rather new to the crypto-scene, but I have been thinking more and more about purchasing and starting up my very own ASIC miner, more specifically ANTMINER L3+, as I have grown most fond of Litecoins. I got a whole bunch of dumbass questions, brace yourselves.. Cheesy

1) As far as I can understand, before purchasing the miner, I should find out if the electrical circuit can take the 800W machine? Any ideas where or how I can find that out? I live in a private house, if that changes anything.

2) As to the purchasing of the miner, I need the miner itself, the PSU and the 10A cable for the PSU, correct? That is all?

3) The wifi connection in my house can be a bit jumpy, is the miner capable of reconnecting to the network successfully if a disconnection should appear?

4) Bitmain obviously sells the miners, are there any other quality and trusted providers?

[kolloh]

I am rather new to the crypto-scene, but I have been thinking more and more about purchasing and starting up my very own ASIC miner, more specifically ANTMINER L3+, as I have grown most fond of Litecoins. I got a whole bunch of dumbass questions, brace yourselves.. Cheesy

1) As far as I can understand, before purchasing the miner, I should find out if the electrical circuit can take the 800W machine? Any ideas where or how I can find that out? I live in a private house, if that changes anything.

2) As to the purchasing of the miner, I need the miner itself, the PSU and the 10A cable for the PSU, correct? That is all?

3) The wifi connection in my house can be a bit jumpy, is the miner capable of reconnecting to the network successfully if a disconnection should appear?

4) Bitmain obviously sells the miners, are there any other quality and trusted providers?

1) I'd imagine most houses can support an 800W machine. There are plenty of desktop PCs that use moe than 800W without an issue. Not sure how you would find that out without doing some sort of testing though.

2) Yeah, the miner, PSU, and cable should be all you need.

3) You would be plugging in the miner via ethernet and not connecting over Wifi I believe. That said, I'm sure they are able to reconnect if the internet drops out.

4) Bitmain is the best place to buy from as they are the direct source. Not sure on other trusted providers.

[mktorn]

In regards to 1, you can determine this pretty easily. Find the voltage for your area (USA is 120V, Europe is 240V, etc.) and divide the wattage by that number to get the amps. So for example, I am in the US so I would do 800 / 120 = ~6.67A.

Then go to the circuit breaker in your house and check the amps allowed on your circuit that you plan to place the ASIC miner. Most residential in the US has 15A circuit breakers and you want to try and keep the total load <90% of the allowed amount for the circuit so a single 800W ASIC miner would fit no problem.

Be sure to remember that this circuit might be shared with other electronics like a TV or lights or anything else that runs in the same general area of the house so try to put it in an area with little to no other electronics to make sure it never puts too much load on the circuit.

[PriitV]

Thanks for the responses and clearing things up for me a little bit